This is a Blues Shuffle from back in the day.Lead guitar learn wide soloing with Pentatonic blues scales
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In this lesson we teach you how to expand scales and play laterally across the neck using expanded scales which combine patterns – be sure and get the free jam tracks and start practicing your licks.
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Is it easier to learn to play guitar on acoustic or electric?
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Is it easier to learn to play guitar on acoustic or electric? Please give me an explanation on why which ever one is easier. Thanks.
A lot of people will tell you the electric guitar for thinner necks and things, but I disagree with that. Strongly. They’re both pretty easy and hard in their own ways.
Electric guitar requires a lot of discipline in picking, whether it’s hybrid, economy, alternate, sweep, etc. Playing riffs in certain songs, as well as guitar solos, can break your neck at first. Not to mention vibratos, tapping, hammer ons, pull offs, the tremo bar, slides, bends, etc.
Acoustic guitar can be easily approached by simply learning a few chords (G, C, A, D, Am, A7, F, Dm, D7, etc.) and simply learn certain strumming patterns. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of famous acoustic guitarists out there that do a lot of complicated stuff. But there aren’t that many, just a few.
Why do you think Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, etc. are considered rock icons? It’s really the guitar that made them. You can see some of the greatest artists the world has ever known that played guitar (Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, etc.) and they’re not in the Hall of Fame because they were guitar players. Acoustic guitar backs up the vocals, for the most part. Electric guitarists will drop everyone’s jaw with their unearthly guitar playing. Your hands have to be so disciplined that you can pick at a fast speed while keeping the rhythm and the flow, and sounding beautiful.
Also, when I first started learning how to play the guitar, I started on acoustic then got my first guitar that same year on Christmas. Learning how to play, I learned scales, chords, barre chords, and timing. You’ll do the same with the electric guitar, but I believe they’d both in their respective ways take you in a different direction.
I should also mention that it depends on the guitar style you want to go with. If you want to be a rhythm guitarist, it’s pretty easy to learn barre chords, power chords, etc. That’s much easier than a lead guitarist. A lead guitarist is in charge of the guitar solos, riffs, etc. Those are much more complicated. By the way, when I mentioned rhythm and lead, I was talking about electric guitars only. Acoustic is almost always about rhythm anyway, which is easy. You won’t see an acoustic guitarist unleashing their inner Hendrix anytime soon.
I wish you the best of luck, and I hope you’re going to learn how to play. It’s an amazing choice of instrument (I play myself). Best of luck to you and have fun!
I’m looking for some scales (besides pentatonic) that I can use to get a nice blues sound. I usually use pentatonic (sometimes adding the third in) and arpeggios like Gm7, Cm7, Dm7 etc. If anybody could give me some scales, arpeggios, licks, tricks/tips etc. that woul be great. I love John Mayers style of blues playing, and I also love Stevie Ray if that helps.
Hi, if you are playing straight ahead chicago electric blues the Blues Scale (1-b3-4-b5-5-b7-8) is your main man. What alot of dudes do, however, is play minor AND major licks in the same phrase. Eric Clapton really nailed this in his Cream days and its kind of become part of the lexicon, so to speak.
So, it’s nice because all you have to do is play your Blues scale 3 frets down from your Root note. So, if you are rocking in A, playing the blues scale on the 2nd fret (F#) will give your licks a nice major tonality without the cheesy major scale thing. What you want to do is to be able to shift between the major and minor effortlessly. SRV does this alot. Alot of guys use chromatics between the 2nd to the fourth for interest.
Alot of early blues has some weirdass stuff going on in it – like no chord progression, weird progressions, or plain ol’ jazz chords thrown in for no reason. I’d suggest listening to Son House for that weird old gospel stuff, he shows what you can do with just a good ol’ boogie riff and screaming about the Lord at the top of your voice and killing can do!
John Lee Hooker (the voodoo man) also plays a mean style of blues. Its chaotic and crazy but if you can pick up on that skip james thing he does where he hammers onto the A note (2nd fret on G string) you’ll be golden.
Finally, Model T-Ford is your man for groove.
Good luck.
How difficult is it to learn guitar on a classical guitar?
Author: admin // Category: Learn GuitarI want to teach myself the guitar. A friend of mine let me borrow an acoustic guitar of his and I used it to get familiar with the instrument, but he asked for it back. I have a family member who has an old classical guitar I could borrow, but I’ve heard that it’s difficult to learn on this type of guitar.
The difficulty depends on a number of things such as your hand size for instance. If you are a teenager who is learning, then your hands may be a bit small for a classical guitar since the neck is much wider than most standard steel string guitars.
The reason that a classical guitar has such a wide neck is because it is designed for finger picking. This allows for more space between each string. That’s not to say you can’t strum a classical guitar, it’s just not really meant for that.
Also, you do not use a pick with a classical guitar, unless you want to break a lot of strings. This means that while you will be able to learn how to make chords and such, you will not be learning how to use a pick, or at least use one properly. This is another drawback to learning on a classical guitar.
Typically, I would recommend a beginner not trying to learn on a classical because statistically speaking, the most common reason that people stop playing guitar early into their learning experience is because they have a hard time playing. The easier the instrument is for you to play, the more likely you will stick with it. However, if you have true determination, then you may be OK with it. You’ll have to decide for yourself.
Don’t listen to people’s discouraging comment about how hard it is to teach yourself an instrument. This just means that they have not succeeded at it. Many people are self taught on many instrument, including me. I would, however, like to suggest having someone guide you a bit. Just to make sure that what you are teaching yourself is really correct and to also give you pointers on what aspects of the instrument you should concentrate on and which aspects aren’t as important.
Learning guitar isn’t just about learning how to make a few chords and strumming. You need to learn everything from proper tuning and string replacement to scales and different variations of each chord. Once you have learned this you can concentrate on more advanced aspects such as chord theory.
Acoustic Guitar Chords for Beginners – Acoustic Guitar Lessons
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Acoustic Guitar Lessons – Fingerstyle Roots, Rags, & Blues – Mississippi Blues 2
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Virtuoso acoustic wizard and fingerstyle master, Tim Sparks presents Fingerstyle Roots, Rags & Blues, an insightful exploration of Early Americana Roots music and intensive fingerstyle study program for intermediate and advanced students. Fingerstyle Roots, Rags & Blues covers Delta Blues, Country Gospel, New Orleans, Ragtime, Early Jazz and the most amazing version of “The Mississippi Blues” that we’ve ever seen performed or heard here at TrueFire.
The tunes in this collection evoke a time when American Roots music crystallized and was transformed by the effects of recordings and radio. Some of these selections were written for guitar, others are adaptations from piano and jazz band arrangements. A long list of Roots Music fingerstyle guitarists particularly influenced the material covered in Fingerstyle Roots, Rags & Blues; Duck Baker, Pat Donohue, Woody Mann, Steve James, Eric Lugosch, Eric Schonberg, Ernie Hawkins, Dakota Dave Hull, Phil Heywood, Guy van Duser, Lasse Johansson, Andy Ellis and Teja Gerken.
Tim Sparks has been redefining the acoustic guitar repertoire since he won the US National Fingerstyle Championship in 1993 with a ground-breaking arrangement of Tchaikovskys Nutcracker Suite. Since then, Sparks has continued to surprise, challenge, and thrill audiences with his diverse repertoire and stunning technique. Equally at home within the Country Blues, Ragtime, Jazz or World Music genres, Sparks extraordinary ability to adapt virtually any music to the solo guitar has earned him an international reputation as one of the most innovative guitarists working today.
Sparks has seven solo CDs to his credit including The Nutcracker Suite, One String Leads to Another and Guitar Bazaar on Peter Fingers Acoustic Music Records. He has also recorded four projects for John Zorns Tzadik label, Neshamah, Tanz, At the Rebbes Table and Masada Guitars, (with Bill Frisell and Marc Ribot).
Fingerstyle Roots, Rags & Blues presents two completely different arrangements of “Amazing Grace,” a rendition of Mother Maybelle Carter’s “Victory Rag” and early Jazz and Blues by the likes of Jelly Roll Morton, Scott Joplin and Eubie Blake. Sparks breaks down each tune, passage by passage, in detailed video explanations, notation and tabs that not only allow you to play the songs, but also gives you a treasure trove of chord voicings, licks, scales and turnarounds to use in your playing.
Fingerstyle Roots, Rags & Blues is optimized for intermediate to advanced players and is presented on 2 CD-ROMs (Windows and Mac compatible). The course features 34 full-length video lessons, text overviews, standard notation and interactive Power Tab so you can “see” and “hear” the tab and notation played out at any tempo. TrueFire’s video lesson player features zoom, frame advance, looping and other handy controls.
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In this blues guitar lesson JamPlay.com teacher, Eric Madis, teaches a couple of key blues licks in the style of Lightnin’ Hopkins. For more, visit http://www.jamplay.com/?s=19&c=269
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Learn lead guitar intermediate lick of week lesson combine arpeggios across neck
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In this lead guitar intermediate lesson video we teach how to stack arpeggios across the neck.
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What are some good songs to learn to play on guitar?
Author: admin // Category: Learn To Play GuitarI’m just starting to learn and I’d like to learn by playing some fairly easy (but not baby easy) songs. Preferably of the Christian persuasion LoL. Also, if you have any other tips of learning to play guitar, I’d very much appreciate it. Thanks ^^
sweet child o mine or one by metallica you should go to youtube to learn song it easy and take little time .Heres a link to a guitar tab website you could practically learn any song just type it in the search engine.